acute anxiety theme

also known as: anxiety

A character exhibits general nervousness, fear, and paranoia.

Examples

In ent3x16 "Doctor's Orders", due to a trans-dimensional disturbance Doctor Phlox becomes paranoid and suffers from various delusions and hallucinations, while the remaining Enterprise crew lies in hibernation.

33 total · 2 choice · 23 major · 8 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ent3x16 choice Phlox became paranoid and sufferer from delusions and hallucinations while the Enterprise crew lay in hibernation.
tng4x17 choice crew paranoid from lack of REM sleep
ahp7x32 major It was revealed that Madeline had paranoid delusions about people following her with murder in mind.
ent1x04 major Tucker dreamed up a deluded conspiracy theories under the influence of hallucinogenic compound found on planet.
movie: A Scanner Darkly (2006) major The drug-addicted, layabout housemates Arctor, Barris, and Luckman dreamed up various paranoid and conspiratorial explanations for one thing after another.
movie: Footprints on the Moon (1975) major One gathers that Alice was suffering from a paranoid delusion that the fictional scientist Blackman was trying to capture her and strand her on the Moon. Alice was generally paranoid and confused throughout the film as she tried to make sense of the strange world her mind assembled before her.
movie: Iron Man 3 (2013) major Tony was suffering from recurrent panic attacks.
movie: The Invisible Man (2020) major Cecilia was made paranoid and fearful because she was being stalked and threatened by Adrian, or perhaps his brother Tom.
nightgallery1x06b major Marius was suffering from paranoid delusions that his wife was cheating on him.
rbt1985e2x06 major Alice became increasingly fearful that her newborn was somehow trying to kill her. When she explained herself to physician, he surely took her to be suffering from a paranoid delusion.